Day: February 8, 2019

Part of the surprise around the Radeon VII's existence is that the 7nm process is brand new, and generally new fabrication processes are messy. Yields are low, meaning lots of chips come out damaged or…

In light of a recent tragedy, Instagram is updating the way it handles pictures depicting self-harm. Instagram and Facebook announced changes to their policies around content depicting cutting and other forms of self-harm in dual…

If you can’t beat or join them… force feed ’em? That appears to be Instagram’s latest strategy for IGTV, which is now being shoved right into Instagram’s main feed, the company announced today. Instagram says…

Ticketing app Gametime is taking its last-minute approach about as far as it can go, with the launch of a new feature called LastCall. This allows users to purchase tickets through Gametime until 90 minutes…

Encryption is an important part of the whole securing-your-data package, but it’s easy to underestimate the amount of complexity it adds to any service or device. One part of that is the amount of processing…

NASA Kepler space telescope’s “last light” image NASA has released the final view taken by Kepler in September, shortly before the space telescope was retired after nearly a decade of unprecedented discoveries about the universe…

Senator Ben Sasse is getting trolled with fortune cookies.Image: CQ-Roll Call, Inc.By Heather Dockray2019-02-07 17:50:00 UTC Back in my day, people sent hate mail to their representatives the good old fashioned way — with letters.…

Watch out, Tesla. One of your rivals, Aurora, just got serious money from retail behemoth Amazon. Aurora isn’t just another self-driving tech company. Co-founder Sterling Anderson was the head of Tesla's Autopilot program and was…

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators have sent three separate letters to Facebook, Google, and Apple over now-banned user monitoring apps.Image: LIONEL BONAVENTURE/AFP/Getty ImagesBy Matt Binder2019-02-07 15:15:28 -0800 Republican and democratic senators are reaching across…